Administration Interface Part#1

You can access all available features and settings of the NAS through the Home/Overview link of the administration interface. Everything is grouped into main categories to make navigation easier.


The System Administration group has the most crucial settings, including the Network icon you must click before beginning the setup procedure. The Network icon gives you access to TCP/IP settings wherefrom you can enable the two NICs' operating mode. Enable the respective option if your Ethernet switch supports Link Aggregation to provide a higher bandwidth between the NAS and the switch. LACP does, of course, require two Ethernet cables for connectivity to both ports of the NAS. This subgroup of settings also allows you to set a DDNS Service that will inform you about the WAN IP in case you don't have a static IP internet connection, which will allow you to discover your NAS on the web. The System Administration settings will be the ones you will use frequently, at least in the beginning, so better explore them thoroughly.


The second category groups all disk-related settings together. You can check the health of all installed disks, format them if needed, or select the RAID level that suits your needs. These settings also allow you to create an iSCSI target and LUN. Using the iSCSI protocol, the storage you have on your NAS can be seen as local disks by any of the client PCs; however, all data will be transferred over the network to and from them. LUN stands for Logical Unit Number, and LUNs are, in essence, numbered disk drives that the operating system of the client PC sees as volumes.



Access Right Management settings allow you to set domain security, make new accounts or user groups, set access rights, and manage the shared folder on the NAS. You can also set the quotas of the NAS's shared folders from here.


If you want the NAS to be visible on various types of networks, you will have to enable the corresponding setting of the Network Services group. These settings also give you the ability to enable the FTP-, Telnet-, and SSH server along with the Web Server, which enables you to host webpage files on the NAS.